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The Idiot (pre-reform Russian: Идіотъ; post-reform Russian: Идиот, romanized: Idiót) is a novel by the 19th-century Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was first published serially in the journal The Russian Messenger in 1868–69.
- Fyodor M. Dostoyevsky
- 1869
Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin finds himself enmeshed in a tangle of love, torn between two women—the notorious kept woman Nastasya and the pure Aglaia—both involved, in turn, with the corrupt, money-hungry Ganya.
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- Fyodor M. Dostoyevsky
- The Idiot
- 1869
- Martin, Eva (Translator)
Jul 2, 2024 · The Idiot, novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, published in Russian as Idiot in 1868–69. The narrative concerns the unsettling effect of the “primitive” Prince Myshkin on the sophisticated, conservative Yepanchin family and their friends. Myshkin visits the Yepanchins, and his odd manner and lack of.
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Aug 31, 2004 · The most autobiographical novel by the author of Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov— and the namesake of Elif Batuman’s debut novel, The Idiot Returning to St Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naïve epileptic Prince Myshkin— known as the “idiot”—pays a visit to his distant relative General ...
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- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Penguin Classics
Jun 21, 2021 · He was educated, first by a governess, and afterwards by a tutor, but could not remember much about this time of his life. His fits were so frequent then, that they made almost an idiot of him (the prince used the expression “idiot” himself).
The Idiot, written by Fyodor Dostoevsky and published serially from 1868—1869, is a novel that revolves around Prince Myshkin, a benevolent and naive young man who returns to Russian society after a period of treatment for epilepsy.
